Tumours in the frontal lobe can cause personality changes and problems with movement, while those in the cerebellum may lead ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in ...

A study in newborn chicks shows that brain lateralisation is essential for the development of a left-to-right mental number line.

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies ...

University of Tübingen researchers used fMRI to record brain activity while people viewed colored moving rings.

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

Learn more about the activity patterns in the brain, which differ for different colors in a surprisingly similar way.

Exposure to high ambient temperatures is associated with lower connectivity in three brain networks in preadolescents, suggesting that heat may impact brain function. Exposure to high ambient ...

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